Tag: climate change
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Spending our carbon budget
Professor Smithey has been teaching his course, “Climate Disruption, Conflict, and Peacemaking” again this semester, and right now the second of two delegations of Swatties are on their way to Glasgow Scotland to observe the COP26 meetings (read their daily blog), so many of us have been thinking in considerable detail about the pace of…
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Peace Major Martin Tomlinson Reflects on the Climate Crisis in Student-lEd Workshop Series
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2021 issue of the Swarthmore College Bulletin. Growing up in rural Kansas, Martin Tomlinson ’23 experienced the effects of the climate crisis firsthand. “I saw my neighbors’ crops failing and the water in the creek behind my house beginning to dry out,” says Tomlinson, a double major in Peace…
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Walking the Walk on Climate Change
Tim Hirschel-Burns ’17 (@TimH_B on Twitter; now at Yale Law School) anticipates global climate summit in Glasgow in a piece published on the Fellow Travelers blog: This November, nations will come together for the international climate summit in Glasgow. The summit is the most significant since the 2015 conference that produced the Paris Agreement, and…
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Students tour Mariner East 2 pipeline
Twenty-five students from the Peace and Conflict Studies / Environmental Studies course “Climate Disruption, Conflict, and Peacemaking” toured the route of the Mariner East 2 pipeline (ME2) construction that runs near Swarthmore College. The ME2, a Sunoco project, runs through highly populated neighborhoods in Delaware and Chester counties and beyond. It will carry compressed propane, ethane,…
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“Half-Mile, Upwind, on Foot” film screening and panel
Please join us for a film screening of Half-Mile, Upwind, on Foot, with the filmmaker and anti-pipeline activists featured in the film. This film documents the efforts of two communities challenging fossil fuel pipeline projects in Pennsylvania, including the Mariner East 2 pipeline that cuts through Delaware County, not far from Swarthmore College. Wednesday, 13…
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Touring the Mariner East 2 Pipeline
Twenty-five students from the Peace and Conflict Studies / Environmental Studies course “Climate Disruption, Conflict, and Peacemaking” braved cold temperatures to tour the route of the Mariner East 2 pipeline (ME2) that runs near Swarthmore College. The ME2 will carry compressed propane, ethane, and butane from fracking operations in the Marcellus shale fields of western Pennsylvania…
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No Empires, No Dust Bowls: Lessons from the first Global Environmental Crisis with Dr. Hannah Holleman
Announcing an Upcoming Lecture! Download and share a flyer. No Empires, No Dust Bowls: Lessons from the First Global Environmental Crisis Dr. Hannah Holleman Assistant Professor of Sociology at Amherst College Monday, December 3, 2018 from 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm in the Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall, Swarthmore College This event is free and open to…
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Pipelines and Nonviolent Civil Resistance
On Wednesday November 7, Malinda Clatterbuck, a co-founder of Lancaster Against Pipelines and a staff member at the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund will speak in our “Climate Disruption, Conflict, and Peacemaking” course in Science Center room 183 at 10:30-11:20. You are welcome to attend to hear more about the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline and local…
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Climate Justice and Civil Rights
Please mark your calendar for an exciting event serving as the capstone for Black History Month and the opening for Women’s History Month: March 2, 2018 Public Lecture “Climate Justice and Civil Rights” 1:30-2:30pm: Swarthmore Meeting House Reception and Gathering 3:30-5:00pm: Black Cultural Center You are invited to a public lecture and conversation with Jacqueline…
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Infographic Session – Climate Disruption Class
Please join the students in Climate Disruption, Conflict, and Peacemaking (PEAC 055 / ENVS 031) for an infographic session (similar to a poster session) on Monday morning December 11 at 10:30 a.m. in Shane Student Lounge. Refreshments provided. This is a zero waste event. With thanks for support from the Lang Center for Civic…